Top Art Director Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Develops and art directs visually driven brand and product marketing campaigns across digital, web, social, film, photography, and experiential channels. Creates concepts, visual systems, decks, treatments, and campaign assets; directs productions; presents creative recommendations; collaborates with internal teams and external partners; and manages assigned creative workstreams from brief through final delivery while maintaining high craft standards.

Own and produce product illustrations, icons, pictograms, UI motion, and scalable visual asset systems across iOS, Android, and web. Establish visual standards, build Figma libraries and code handoff workflows, develop AI-assisted production and automation, and art direct designers and partners. Collaborate with product design, design systems, and engineering teams to deliver accessible, consistent, polished assets and animations.

Lead the artistic vision and quality for League of Legends cosmetic content. Define thematics, style guides, review processes, and creative briefs while partnering with art disciplines, production, marketing, and external studios. Mentor art leaders and talent, support staffing and performance management, coordinate department rituals, and ensure cohesive, high-quality delivery across distributed live-service development pipelines.

Art Director responsible for concepting and executing digital and social media design for a global fitness client. The role develops modern, on-brand creative solutions, presents designs to internal and senior client stakeholders, collaborates with creative, production, copy, motion, and account teams, and incorporates feedback while following current design trends and best practices.

Art Director responsible for developing and executing visually compelling campaigns across digital, social, content, and integrated channels. The role combines conceptual art direction with hands-on design, including layouts, key visuals, mood boards, typography, and visual storytelling. Responsibilities include collaborating with creative teams and clients, presenting concepts, guiding designers, maintaining visual consistency, and managing multiple deadlines. Experience with gaming, fantasy, entertainment, or collectible card game brands is advantageous.

Lead conceptual development and execution of high-volume, social-first creative content and campaigns. Partner with copywriters, creative directors, influencers, and creators to develop culturally relevant ideas across TikTok, Shorts, and Reels. Direct projects from concept and storyboards through final edits, maintain high design standards, present creative rationale to clients, and manage multiple fast-paced projects while staying current with visual and social media trends.

Contract Art Director responsible for defining visual and tonal brand guidelines, shaping PR and editorial storytelling, creating paid and organic still and motion assets, and supporting executive communications. The role combines creative strategy with hands-on design and production, requiring strong typography, layout, branding, communication, and agency or freelancer coordination skills. Work is approximately 16 hours per week for 3–6 months.

Leads end-to-end video concepting, production, shooting, editing, and motion design for campaigns, product launches, social, web, and retail. Sets visual direction across brand channels, directs talent and production partners, captures photography, and develops product demos and customer stories. Manages and mentors a Senior Brand Designer while collaborating with marketing, growth, product, and leadership teams. Uses AI tools to improve creative production and maintain brand quality.

Leads high-volume ecommerce photography and supports editorial productions across fashion brands. Develops moodboards and creative decks, directs models, collaborates with photographers, stylists, producers, and retouchers, and oversees image selection, product accuracy, retouching feedback, and final asset quality. The role translates seasonal creative direction into consistent commercial imagery while bringing an editorial perspective and improving creative workflows.

Lead and scale the Art function across multiple live-service games. Coach Art Leads, oversee visual direction, manage art capacity and resources, establish quality standards and workflows, lead hiring, and partner with product, production, engineering, and executive teams to deliver high-quality art across diverse games without sustained crunch.

The Associate Art Director helps define and maintain a game's visual identity from early development through delivery. Responsibilities include creating briefs and style guides, leading visual reviews, coordinating art disciplines and partner teams, providing hands-on concept development and paintovers, mentoring artists, managing creative priorities, and ensuring artistic cohesion across characters, environments, animation, VFX, UI, and other game assets.

Develop and art direct creative concepts and campaigns for B2B brands across social and digital channels. Translate complex offerings into engaging visual storytelling, create mood boards and storyboards, guide designers and production partners, and present ideas to clients. The role requires strong design craft, platform-native social expertise, collaboration with copywriters and strategists, and ownership from concept through delivery.

Concepts and designs social-first and digital-first creative for pharmaceutical brands across paid and organic social, short-form video, display, web, and other digital formats. Develops visual systems, translates clinical information into engaging communications, collaborates with creative and production partners, and ensures compliance with pharmaceutical medical, legal, and regulatory requirements. Presents work, manages revisions and deadlines, and maintains high standards for design quality, accessibility, and brand consistency.

Leads the visual direction and design of multiple children’s magazines, partnering with editorial to develop visual storytelling and manage illustration assignments, photo shoots, layouts, and production workflows. Oversees creative consistency across publications, mentors design staff, manages freelancers and artists, and balances multiple deadlines in a fast-paced publishing environment.

Leads the Defend by Tactacam brand’s visual identity, creative direction, and design production. Manages and mentors graphic designers, develops storytelling-focused campaigns, oversees concepting through final approval, and coordinates schedules, budgets, agencies, vendors, and creative partners. Builds scalable design systems and workflows while partnering with senior creative and brand leaders to deliver high-quality assets across campaigns, product launches, retail, social, and evergreen content.

Leads visual identity and art direction across multiple consumer brands and digital channels. Oversees designers and external partners, develops brand standards, and directs creative for email, social, advertising, ecommerce, photography, and video. Partners with marketing and merchandising on campaigns, testing, and content strategy. Provides hands-on design support, mentors the creative team, manages project priorities, and uses customer insights and performance metrics to improve creative effectiveness.

Art Director supporting Snap’s SPECS Marketing team, developing visual concepts, campaign platforms, design systems, and production-ready assets. The role spans brand, product, digital, social, web, and experiential work, including directing photography and film productions. Responsibilities include building decks and treatments, presenting concepts, collaborating with creative partners, managing production workflows, and maintaining high creative standards across multiple projects. Hands-on proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite is required.

Develops visual concepts and consumer-facing creative for global marketing campaigns, television, digital, social, e-commerce, lifestyle photography, and sales content. Partners with copywriters, creative directors, cross-functional teams, and vendors to deliver on-brand work. Manages multiple projects, provides art direction for video and photography, and serves as a quality gatekeeper for brand tone, strategy, and execution.

Create advertising, digital, and print assets using generative AI and Adobe Creative Cloud. Translate briefs into polished, on-brand creative work, manage multiple requests, conduct quality reviews, brief and guide creative teams, present AI workflows to clients, and collaborate with Producers, Creative, and Product teams. Improve creative systems, templates, and workflows while staying current with emerging AI and design technologies.

Leads creative direction for campaigns and projects, mentors and manages designers, develops visual concepts, and produces branded assets across digital, print, video, email, social media, websites, and presentations. Collaborates with stakeholders and copywriters, ensures quality and brand consistency, manages project timelines, and communicates creative strategies while maintaining current design and technology expertise.

Lead the creative quality and direction of AI-powered advertising. Develop concepts, prototypes, workflows, standards, and evaluation methods using generative image and video technologies. Experiment with prompting, models, references, and node-based systems while applying expertise in visual storytelling, filmmaking, composition, lighting, editing, pacing, and sound. Collaborate with creative and technical teams, evaluate emerging tools, document best practices, and coach Creative Studio members.

Direct the visual identity of branded Roblox experiences from concept through launch and live updates. Lead 3D artists, UI designers, technical artists, and other creatives; establish style guides and art pipelines; oversee optimization across devices; guide UI, marketing assets, and quality reviews; collaborate with clients, designers, producers, and engineers; and present creative work while translating brand guidelines into Roblox-native experiences.

Hands-on Art Director responsible for translating pharmaceutical and market access strategies into polished visual assets across digital, interactive, print, and presentation formats. Manages projects from creative brief through final delivery, presents work to clients, supports pitches, mentors junior designers, and maintains brand standards. Ensures designs meet client guidelines and pharmaceutical regulatory requirements, including MLR review, fair balance, ISI, and reference management.

Leads the visual direction of an unpublished 3D game, translating creative vision into production-ready art standards and workflows. Oversees visual quality across characters, animation, VFX, storytelling, and gameplay readability while balancing technical and production constraints. Builds, mentors, and directs internal and external art teams, vendors, and co-development partners. Collaborates with game leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver a cohesive player experience and maintain high artistic quality throughout development.

Lead visual and creative direction for pitch decks, brand campaigns, and entertainment marketing across social, CRM, OOH, print, and mailers. Manage and mentor designers, refine creative workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, present concepts to clients, and drive innovative design and motion solutions. The role requires strong social and editorial instincts, project management, communication, and the ability to manage multiple fast-paced projects.